New York S 4804: Relates to establishing first responder safety zones

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S04804 Summary:

BILL NOS04804 

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SAME ASSAME AS A09104

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SPONSORRYAN C

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COSPNSRADDABBO, HELMING, ROLISON, WEBER

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd V & T L, generally

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Relates to establishing first responder safety zones and setting speed limits in such safety zones.

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BILL NOS04804 

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02/13/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

04/29/20251ST REPORT CAL.783

04/30/20252ND REPORT CAL.

05/01/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

05/06/2025PASSED SENATE

05/06/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

05/06/2025referred to transportation

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

02/04/20261ST REPORT CAL.248

02/05/20262ND REPORT CAL.

02/09/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

02/10/2026PASSED SENATE

02/10/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

02/10/2026referred to transportation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4804

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 13, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. C. RYAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing
 first responder safety zones and speed limits in such safety zones

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new
 2 section 141-c to read as follows:
 3 § 141-c. First responder safety zone. The area or space, not to exceed
 4 six hundred sixty feet on a highway passing or abutting any facility or
 5 parking area where fire vehicles, police vehicles, ambulances, or emer-
 6 gency ambulance service vehicles are stationed, for use in responding to
 7 emergencies. First responder zones shall be protected, marked or indi-
 8 cated by lines or other markings on the surface and by adequate signs as
 9 to be plainly visible at all times while set apart as a safety zone.
 10 § 2. Section 1144-a of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
 11 adding a new subdivision (e) to read as follows:
 12 (e) During an active emergency, every operator of a motor vehicle
 13 shall yield the right of way to any fire vehicle, police vehicle, ambu-
 14 lance, or emergency ambulance service vehicle displaying one or more
 15 red, white, blue or green lights pursuant to the provisions of subdivi-
 16 sion forty-one of section three hundred seventy-five of this chapter and
 17 traveling within or entering a first responder safety zone. A first
 18 violation of this provision shall be punishable by a fine of not more
 19 than five hundred dollars. A second violation of this provision shall be
 20 punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars.
 21 § 3. The section heading and subdivision (a) of section 1151 of the
 22 vehicle and traffic law, subdivision (a) as amended by chapter 159 of
 23 the laws of 2002, are amended to read as follows:
 24 Pedestrians' right of way in crosswalks and first responder safety
 25 zone. (a) When traffic-control signals are not in place or not in oper-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09579-01-5

 S. 4804 2

 1 ation the driver of a vehicle shall yield the right of way, slowing down
 2 or stopping if need be to so yield, to a pedestrian crossing the roadway
 3 within a crosswalk or first responder safety zone on the roadway upon
 4 which the vehicle is traveling, except that any pedestrian crossing a
 5 roadway at a point where a pedestrian tunnel or overpass has been
 6 provided shall yield the right of way to all vehicles.
 7 § 4. Subdivision (d) and paragraph 4 of subdivision (h) of section
 8 1180 of the vehicle and traffic law, subdivision (d) as amended by chap-
 9 ter 432 of the laws of 1997, and paragraph 4 of subdivision (h) as
 10 amended by section 7 of part C of chapter 62 of the laws of 2003, are
 11 amended and a new subdivision (c-1) is added to read as follows:
 12 (c-1) Except as provided in subdivision (g) of this section, whenever
 13 maximum first responder zon